Tapioca is also known as sand base, orange sand base, sand chalk, tapioca root.Scientific name Pueraria thomsoni Benth.Belongs to the family Fabaceae (Papilionaceae).Radix Puerariae is the dried or dried root of the cassava plant.Sand is cassava, root is root, medicine is root of a type of cassava.Tapioca is a drink that is very popular with our people in the hot season due to its cooling, thirst-quenching and body-cooling properties.Tapioca is a type of vine, which can be up to 10m long, the roots grow into a tuberous, powdery tuber.Raw cassava roots.From the end of October to March 3-4 of the following year, people dig for roots, wash the sandy soil, peel off the outer paper layer (for easy drying), cut into 10-15cm long pieces.If the diameter is too big, cut it lengthwise into 2 halves, sometimes cut into pieces 0.50-1cm thick.Steamed with sulfur, then dried or dried.If you want to make tapioca flour, pound it, decant it, filter it again and again, and dry it.In cassava, it is found that there is starch with the rate of 12-15% (calculated on fresh roots).The Beijing Institute of Medicine, China found saponozite in the sand root.In cassava, puerarin is also found as a flavonozide and in cassava leaves there are asparagine, adenine and amino acids.According to the book Medicinal plants and Vietnamese herbs by Prof. Dr.Do Tat Loi, kudzu (Cat can) sweet, spicy, average.Tapioca flowers sweet taste calculated average;into two business and taste;It has the effect of relaxing muscles, reducing heat, and renewing only thirst.Cassava flowers detoxify, used to treat symptoms of thirst, headache, cholera, bloody dysentery, and initial diagnosis.Cat root is a medicine to cure fever, make sweat, cure fever, thirst, headache, bloody dysentery.Daily use 8-20g in the form of decoction, used alone or in combination with other drugs.Tapioca flour (starch) is used to make cool drinks, reduce heat or used in the preparation of tablets because it has properties to help tablets stick and at the same time is easy to separate for quick effects.Tapioca flour cools down summer days.- Cure colds and fevers:Cat Can Thang (Truong Trong Canh's prescription): Cantaloupe 8g, ephedra 5g, cinnamon 4g, big apple 5g, dahlia 4g, birth Khuong 5g, licorice 4g, water 600ml, color remaining 200ml, divided 3 times drink during the day.- Powder sprinkled wet places sweat:Tapioca flour 5g, Thien Hoa pollen 5g, talc 20g, mix well and sprinkle on damp and itchy places.- Prescription for children's fever:20g of sand, add 200ml of water, still 100ml, for children to drink during the day.- Tapioca leaves cure snakebite:Crush fresh cassava leaves, squeeze out water to drink, and place the residue on the snake bite.In China, people also use cassava flowers as a cure for drunkenness.According to Dr.Nguyen Duc Quang, a doctor of traditional medicine, has a number of healing menus with cassava:- Song sand thang: Fresh bitter melon 150-200g, fresh sand base 150-200g.All washed, sliced, sharp or drink.Drink 1 time a day, 2-3 days.Good for people with colds and heat;Symptoms include headache, fever, sweating, stuffy nose, sore throat, bronchitis, cough with yellow sputum, cases of dengue fever (new fever or bleeding under the skin and mucous membranes).- Tapioca porridge with plain rice: 30g tapioca flour, 50g plain rice.Soak rice in water for 1 night, cook porridge with tapioca flour, add a little salt or sugar to eat.This dish is very good for people with high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, chronic diarrhea due to spleen damage.In addition, it also makes cooling food, summer refreshment.- Tapioca juice with lotus root: Fresh cassava, lotus root with the same dose, juice to drink.Good for people with bleeding under the skin, heavy menstrual bleeding, bleeding gums, blood in urine, bloody stools.- Gotu kola juice: Fresh gotu kola 20 -30g, tapioca 10g.Gotu kola washed, pounded, add 150-200ml boiling water, let cool and decant water;mix cassava flour, add sugar to drink;make soft drinks.Treatment of hot fever, headache, rash, boils, heat rash, bloody dysentery.Note: Pregnant women should not use cassava.See more videos of interest:Post-COVID- Rehabilitation for people with mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases.Sign in to commentLogin with socailYou have successfully submitted.Editor-in-Chief: TRAN TUAN LINHDeputy Editor-in-Chief: TO QUANG TRUNG (Permanent), TRAN YEN CHAU, NGUYEN NGOC DUC, NGUYEN CHI LONGPress activity license number 390/GP-BTTTT issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications on June 25, 2021© Copyright by Health and Life Online Newspaper - 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